JKR's Theme SPOILERS

[Liz Muir]

No: HPFGUIDX 62196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> > 
Rowen Avalon wrote:
> > Or is it? We have seen several instances in the book where blood 
and 
> > inborn talent has mattered. JKR seems to have a slight paradox 
(if 
> > that's the word I'm looking for?) about this. JKR does not deny 
that 
> > some things you cannot control. You are born with or without 
them. 
> > Neville, for example, try has hard as he might, was not born with 
a 
> > great talent in magic. It's not his fault, but he can't do much 
about 
> > it. Harry was born with Slytherin qualities (CoS) but chooses to 
> > fight them and be a Gryffindor. Also, quidditch talent. Even the 
> > basic concept of being born a wizard. It's not the muggles fault 
they 
> > are muggles. It's not the squib's fault they are squibs.
> > 
> > Rowen Avalon, who is feeling very brilliant at having discovered 
this
> 
> Errr... canon violation. In only one year in the DA, Neville has 
> demonstrated that he doesn't have less magical power. He was second 
to 
> Hermione only right at the end. That's a lot of power there. And 
Harry 
> wasn't necesarily born with Slytherin qualities; Dumbledore's words 
> imply that most of those were given to him by Voldemort through the 
> failed AK. Parselmouth, for example. And it has been expressed as a 
> theory that his flying abilities were also passed onto him by 
Voldemort 
> (who as Tom Riddle might have been a star Quidditch player).

I'll consent on your think about Neville, though I still feel he 
doesn't have a high of magical talent. I think that his improvment in 
DA is the result of his choices and a lot of effort but he still 
(IIRC) does poorly in his OWLs and potions. Maybe I'm wrong about 
him. Bad example.

I do know that Harry wasn't born with those qualities, sorry about 
the poor choice of wording. However, he does have now all the 
qualities that would make him a good Slytherin, but he has chosen not 
to. That's what I was trying to get across.

The theory that Harry has natural quidditch talent still stands. It 
doesn't matter who gave it to him, LV or James. He didn't have to 
work to be good at quidditch. It wasn't some thing he choose to do. 
How you were given it is mostly irrelavant. The fact stands that he 
has it naturally where as Ron, for example, has to work at it a lot.

Rowen